lgliser Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Just wondered if anyone has used this and what they thought. 🙂 https://www.summit.org/curriculum/lightbearers-home-school/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudley Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I have used it twice with my eighth graders. I didn’t use all of it in the sense that I didn’t require them to do the extra writing projects and research projects and we discussed everything instead of filling in blanks. I did push for them to do the one paragraph per chapter that basically was “this is what I believe” on this subject and encouraged them to do some of the scripture study on their own, hoping to grow their ownership a bit. We used it with the expectation of exposure and discussion starters. I think it did that really well. I particularly liked the videos in the first sections done by cedarville (I think) The content was good and clear. Some of the later videos were alittle dated. (I do have the first edition. ) The second half deals with different issues marriage, law, government, politics, history. As it walked through those  I struggled just because while I desire for my kids to be critical thinkers, if they are going to be it is going to come from their dad not me!! But it was good that we could draw him into the conversation some. I think it was a great opportunity for my daughter particularly to articulate herself alittle more and ask some questions.  For my son, I didn’t have too much bandwidth for much discussion that year, but I still think it was helpful. There wasn’t too much I disagreed with, there was some, but that gave us the opportunity to discuss the different sides.  I will use it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgliser Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Dudley said: I have used it twice with my eighth graders. I didn’t use all of it in the sense that I didn’t require them to do the extra writing projects and research projects and we discussed everything instead of filling in blanks. I did push for them to do the one paragraph per chapter that basically was “this is what I believe” on this subject and encouraged them to do some of the scripture study on their own, hoping to grow their ownership a bit. We used it with the expectation of exposure and discussion starters. I think it did that really well. I particularly liked the videos in the first sections done by cedarville (I think) The content was good and clear. Some of the later videos were alittle dated. (I do have the first edition. ) The second half deals with different issues marriage, law, government, politics, history. As it walked through those  I struggled just because while I desire for my kids to be critical thinkers, if they are going to be it is going to come from their dad not me!! But it was good that we could draw him into the conversation some. I think it was a great opportunity for my daughter particularly to articulate herself alittle more and ask some questions.  For my son, I didn’t have too much bandwidth for much discussion that year, but I still think it was helpful. There wasn’t too much I disagreed with, there was some, but that gave us the opportunity to discuss the different sides.  I will use it again. Thanks! I'm in the same boat as far as my kids getting critical thinking from their dad, not me! LOL. I'm hoping he can weigh in quite a bit... Anyway, thanks for the review! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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